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Technorati is indexing me again! They had to make a code change to fix
the problem with my blog getting stuck in their queue. Kudos to Eric M.
and the guys at
GetSatisfaction.com
where they have "community powered support for Technorati".

Well, they're "sorta, kinda" indexing me anyway. It's on a 24 hour tape
delay or something. So I never get picked up by Memeorandum because they
pull from Technorati and Technorati has stuff I posted yesterday
listed as my latest blog entry. And that's old news to Memeorandum.

Wankers.

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Sometimes you read something in the paper and you just shake your head in
bewilderment. Like with today's saga of liberal idiocy.

There's no disputing the fact that Essex County Freeholder Rufus Johnson was
carjacked last week. Right in his own driveway. By three armed thugs. So now
he's lashing out. At the government,
and himself.

Looking back on both incidents, Johnson said government leaders like himself
must shoulder responsibility in combating violence by keeping youth from
getting sucked into a life of crime.

"It's a whole lot of things that contributed to what happened to me. It's not
just those kids," he said.

A former basketball player who coached for nine years, Johnson, 56, also works
as chief-of-staff for state Sen. Ronald Rice and describes himself as a
longtime youth advocate. Over the past decade-and-a-half, Johnson said,
government cutbacks have laid waste to the budgets of social services and
youth recreation programs which he said are vital to a community's health.

Carjacking is all too common in Newark. Caused, of course, by
"government cutbacks." No more midnight basketball? Pick up an Uzi and
stick it in some guy's face!

Freeholder President Blonnie Watson, a Central Ward resident, agreed that the
focus must be on helping young people.

"When you're hungry or you need a roof over your head...what do you do as a
human being? These young kids are suffering because their parents can't
provide for them," she said.

Can you believe this sophistry? The only answer to hunger and suffering is
… crime! That's it. There's your choice. Free stuff from the
government. Or crime.

Personal responsibility? Self-reliance? Nope. Not part of the equation.
Since time immemorial, poor kids abandoned their morality and immediately
turned to a life of larceny. Right?

What do you do as a human being Ms. Watson? You show a little
respect. For yourself. And for others.
Here's some excellent advice from a judge in New Zealand.

"Always we hear the cry from teenagers 'What can we do, where can we go?'"

"Your town does not owe you recreational facilities and your parents do not
owe you fun. The world does not owe you a living, you owe the world something.
You owe it your time, energy and talent so that no one will be at war, in
poverty or sick and lonely again."

"In other words, grow up, stop being a cry baby, get out of your dream world
and develop a backbone, not a wishbone. Start behaving like a responsible
person. You are important and you are needed. It's too late to sit around
and wait for somebody to do something someday. Someday is now and that
somebody is you..."

Find those kids who carjacked you Mr. Johnson. And then beat them over the
head with this advice until it sinks in. You'll do them, and yourself, a
world of good.